What Does Perseverance Mean To Me

There comes a time in life when perseverance shows one’s true potential. The story“Unbroken” written by Laura Hillenbrand shows legendary runner Louie Zamperini and showed how he truly represented that. Throughout this story it displays what the true meaning of perseverance; whether, it’s something as little as staying committed to track or fighting in World War Two and trying to fight for life even if there seems like there’s nothing to fight for. If someone is commited no matter the time or the difficulty that doesn’t just show perseverance, but it shows one’s true ability to fight for and try for something they want to accomplish.

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” This quote means that you are not always gonna succeed on the first try, but if you really want to succeed, you have to work past your failures and keep working until you can reach your goal. Perseverance. The dictionary defines perseverance as ¨steady persistence in a course of action, purpose, or state, especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement¨. Synonyms of perseverance are ¨steadfastness¨, ¨persistence¨, and ¨pertinacity¨. Antonyms of perseverance are ¨cowardice¨, ¨lethargy¨, and ¨apathy¨. Perseverance is important because you are going to run into difficulties or obstacles in your lifetime. You have to be able to push through the difficulties and obstacles to be able to move on and continue with your life. An athlete has to be able to persevere through an injury to be able to play again. If the athlete feels bad about himself after an injury, they won't be able to move on and play again.Malala is

Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken recounts Louie Zamperini's incredible life. The novel contains extreme obstacles that Zamperini overcame in his life, in which motifs of survival, resilience, and redemption emerge. Zamperini, a former Olympic athlete, survived a record-breaking forty-seven days at sea and then survived two years in Japanese Prisoner of War camps. Zamperini persisted and never lost faith even when the Bird constantly tormented him till near death. In Unbroken Hillenbrand correctly argues that with perseverance and Christianity one can overcome the most forbidding of obstacles.

In her book, Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand vividly illustrates the suffering surpassed by the protagonist, Louie. By doing so, Hillenbrand depicts the cruelty of Japanese prisoner of war detainment camps throughout the duration of the Second World War. Louie's interminable determination and perseverance reveals the concealed dexterity of human nature while exploring not only American political and social values, but also the global spiritual contingency throughout moments of disdain.

Elijah Turner thought this as he walked into this familiar place, a second home, the place where his dreams came true. The basketball court.

There are endless green pastures. There are dirt roads, secretive and rocky, that lead to hidden watering holes with old rickety bridges connecting the land. The river water under the bridges is cool, clean and refreshing. It feels like it runs just for you. There are famous calico leaves that hang loosely from every tree branch in the fall that bring photographers from far away places. Later, the leaves fall in delicate, colorful piles. As children, my siblings and I would rake them into bigger piles and flop our little bodies on top.

This past week I chose to apply the concept of perseverance with my youngest son, Paul. Paul is eleven years old and preparing to enter the sixth grade. This is a significant transition as he will be entering middle school. I selected this concept for several reasons not the least of which is the fact that performance character has not been an emphasis in my parenting style. Having served as his Sunday school teacher for all of his eleven years of life, he has a firm foundation in the area of moral character. Additionally, Paul struggles with math concepts. During the previous summer, I experimented with giving him a preview of the upcoming school year’s math curriculum. This yielded outstanding results in both his grades and his performance in standardized tests.

I believe in perseverance. More than those who are gifted, I admire those who rival the talented through sheer hard work. According to Stephen King, "Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." For this reason, I do not lament my failures for too long, as they are merely another opportunity for me to succeed.

I am from a small town in South Dakota that not many people know about. Growing up my summers consisted of bike rides, swimming, and trying not to fight with my two older sisters. My parents are very loving and they are always helping others.

Perseverance is the key character quality of the great leaders of the Bible. They did not give up when things God hard. They continued to do what God had told them to do until the work was done.

What is perseverance? Perseverance is the ability to go on when things seem hopeless. It is also a measure of success, or at least how much sacrifice one is willing to make in the name of success. As students, it is impossible to achieve personal success without having a goal, or direction. The goal and direction that often propels us to achieve is perseverance. Perseverance is the ability to forge ahead despite setbacks that threaten to undermine all efforts to succeed.

I used perseverance to help motivate me and push me to persevere through the wild jungle known as ‘high school’. To start, I never really was fond of sitting my anxious, disobedient butt down at a desk for eight hours but developing perseverance helped me find friends I could suffer with. To elaborate, as fresh meat in a new high school packed full of hungry ferocious seniors, finding friends became more of a mission then a simple task. To demonstrate, I walked through the abnormally wide hallways of South High School with my head down and my hood up, looking for a weak link like myself to befriend. Consequently, by the middle of freshman year, the only friend I managed to find was the tall and slender lunch lady everyone called ‘Ms. Mole’

Growing up I have had many learning experiences. Through our senior project I was able to learn some things not only about myself but also about others. Shabria and I was fortunate enough to go visit the Watonga Elementary School and teach first graders the definition of perseverance. We had Mrs.Miller's first grade class and the facial expression the kids had was priceless. I also think the facial expression we had was unforgettable. For our praxis assignment we had two teaching choices one was about success and the other perserverance. Shabria and I came to one decision we decide to teach them about perseverance. Many did not know the meaning of perseverance so we asked if they knew the word determination or strong. The first grade class

Overall Purpose/Theme: The overall theme of the poem was Perseverance because the bird who has been thrown into the “real world” must overcome all obstacles thrown its way to live a good life. Evidence to support the theme: 1. Thomas Hardy writes “and every spirit upon the earth seemed fervourless as I” (15-16). Although this sounds like the opposite of perseverance this is when the bird is actually realizing that it will be living in this dark gruesome world and it needs to just suck it up and deal with it.

Perseverance is the essence of Boyhood. Through several different households, an array of living situations, different levels of poverty, and a plethora of experiences; we see Mason overcome coercion in school, at home, and in his own mind. Through what may seem as unfavorable situations Mason emerges as an individual with a positive out look on the rest of his life. What made him this way? Was it his moms support and the way she raised him and his sister? Did seeing his mom start from basically nothing and picking herself up and making something out of nothing help give Mason a spark of ambition? Maybe it was all the things his father told him that stuck with him through all these years and gave him the motivation to always keep his head up and not let bad moments make up a bad life. If none of this gave us the outcome we got, then was it predisposition from the day Mason was born to be kind, gentle, shy, and a mostly positive person? Mason, his mom, and his sister did not let being poor define them. His mom did not succumb to the negativity of several bad relationships, troublesome times, and abuse from all angles. She could have let all these things define her but she kept her head up and overcome these obstacles. What made her be this way? What gives people this drive to be better?We could look at the opposite end of things and ask what makes people not want to be better. Mason through all the different things he went through and all his experiences was still the same